Dear Friends, Even though I write this before Christmas I am able to say a big Thank You for the cards, gifts and kind messages that we have again received this year. 2019 has been a challenging year, but God has been good to us and greatly encouraged us. For that we give Him due…
Dear Friends, As I begin this final letter of 2019, I want to thank all of you on behalf of Linda and myself for the love and support that you have shown us through another year. Thank you and may you know the fullness of God’s blessing this Christmas. It’s that time of year again,…
Dear Friends, I wonder what thoughts spring to mind when you consider the month of November. Maybe you will have a bonfire party on or near November 5th. On Sunday 10th or Monday 11th many will take time to remember those who have given their lives in wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. On…
Dear Friends, As I write this letter we are in the middle of all the latest turmoil over Brexit. The Prime Minister has been defeated in four parliamentary votes; people are calling for delays in leaving Europe, but no one seems to have a clear answer. It seems to be a time of utter confusion…
Dear Friends, September heralds a return to school and a recommencement of our extra ministries. We have known a year of special blessing in so many areas of ministry and we look with anticipation to what God will do in these coming months. As a church we hold firmly to the great teaching of the…
Dear Friends, It hardly seems possible that this issue of the Gazette marks the move into the second half of the year. As I write I am preparing to go to the Bala Ministers’ Conference. In the publicity this year it says“The Bala conference is for pastors who love Christ and want to see the…
Dear Friends, This letter is very different from my regular letters in that it is a direct quotation of a blog that I receive each Friday. Under the title “Is Your Family Too Friendly?” it deals with a question that concerns me greatly in our current culture. There are families that are dysfunctional in that…
Dear Friends, We have recently had the joy and privilege of again focussing on the events of Easter, remembering all that Christ achieved on behalf of His people. We thank God that the price of our sin, death, was fully paid, because Christ was willing to suffer on our behalf. The cross was a horrific…
Dear Friends, This month we will remember with great thanksgiving the wonderful message that is Easter. Strictly Easter celebrates the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we are inclined to combine all the events of His betrayal, desertion, arrest, crucifixion, death, burial and resurrection and call it The Easter Story. In this letter I…
Dear Friends, I write this the day after Pauline McMillen presented her powerful paper on the life of Bishop John Hooper of Gloucester (1 March 1495 – 9 February 1555). We placed it on that particular Wednesday evening after a series of postponements to fit with the anniversary of his death, but it seems appropriate…